Here’s some the articles that caught my attention this week. Internet 2009 in numbers : Some interesting figures about, emails, social networks and Internet trends; Quix: Many simple comands for your browser, like performing SEO analysis of current webpage, many search, tweet and more, a must see; 8 Usability lessons learned from members: some common […]
For versioning software I use subversion and when comes time to publish changes I just update the production branch and voilà the website’s update to the latest changes / fixes. The problem is that having a checkout copy in my document root by default exposes the .svn hidden directory and all its files.
The Problem Today I needed to have configuraion variables available across multiple PHP scripts / classes, I didn’t want to pass the array accross files or corrupt the global scope. The solution A this simple class that makes configuration varibles available throught out my application. It uses a singleton pattern so I know there is only […]
One of the problem I had recently was that I wanted to preserve actions in the history so that when users are hitting that back button it would revert to a previous states of the page that was updated using XMLHTTPRequest. Although this isn’t a new problem in ajax applications, I never really had a real need to fix it. A colleague of mine suggested using a library called Really Simple History (RSH), just thought I’d share how I was able to use it.
Sure modern JavaScript libraries have made our lives so much easier, but adding 50K or so can slow down the loading of your pages. Sure after the first load it will be cached the visitor’s browser, but there a are several benefits in using the versions hosted by Google’s content distribution network .
After running Unbuntu with a Gnome Desktop for about a year, I shamefully have gone back to windows. I still think the true power of Linux lies in the command line tools not its gui. I have found the perfect balance a desktop that’s hassle free (hold the laughs please) and a full feature LAMP […]
For quite sometime I’ve wanted to start blogging, and finally decided to give a stab at it. Like most geeks, I spend most of my work day on the Internet, so figured I would use this blog to share some of the daily discoveries I make. What to expect? Well being a devoted PHP programmer […]